The Health Benefits Of Jump Roping

Are you a boxer? MMA fighter? Or even a 12-year-old girl with pigtails on the playground at recess time?

Wait, you’re not?!?!

Then why the fuck would you want to jump rope?

Because you’re reading this, you obviously don’t know why you would want to do such a thing. So maybe you should consider these five reasons, some of which will have you jumping for joy.¹

TOTAL BODY WORKOUT

Jumping rope uses all of the muscles in the body, from the shoulders, biceps, and triceps twirling the rope; to the core working to stabilize the body; to the calves, glutes, quads, and hamstrings contracting with each jump as your body fat jiggles up and down to the chagrin of all those unlucky to be around.

BURNS CALORIES

Since lots of muscles are used at the same time, that means the body uses lots of energy in the form of calories, which is why jump roping burns more calories per minute than many other exercises, in addition to elevating the heart rate two to three times faster.²

LOW IMPACT

When performed properly so you land on the balls of your feet instead of flat footed, as well as jumping low rather than high, jump roping can place less stress on the joints than running because the impact of each jump is absorbed by both legs.³

BUILDS BONE DENSITY

As we age, we lose calcium, resulting in the loss of bone mass. Jumping rope, as well as lifting weights, helps strengthen the bones so you’re not in a nursing home getting or giving backshots that break your hip and cause you to die a few weeks later.⁴

IMPROVES MOTOR SKILLS

Jumping rope can help with your balance and hand-eye coordination, making you less awkward than you currently are. By the way, that’s less awkward in terms of your clumsiness. Jumping rope isn’t going to do shit about your social awkwardness, you fucking future lone gunman, you!

Jump roping is overlooked as an exercise intervention, especially in regard to cardio modalities. But it’s one of the most effective forms of exercise for the above reasons. In addition, it’s convenient and fun to do, thus ruining two of the most popular excuses for not working out, one of which is not having access to a gym, treadmill, whatever. That particular argument is rendered moot because a jump rope is portable and a workout with it can be performed anywhere, with the equipment in question costing as little as $20 for a good one.

As for the other excuse killed by the jump rope, it’s that of not doing cardio because doing it on a machine, if not doing cardio itself, is boring. As opposed to something like running where there’s little to any variation that can be done to the act of rapidly moving the feet as the body hurtles through space, there are endless jump rope tricks to learn and implement that can vary a jump roping session from one to another, which helps to silence that particular argument.

With all of that said, you now know all of the benefits of skipping rope!

Oh, by the way, jumping rope is also known as “skipping rope”!⁵

So yeah, thanks to what you’ve just read, you now know the benefits of skipping rope so you now have something else to skip out on other than your children, you delinquent fuck!

PAY YOUR CHILD SUPPORT!!!

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Monster Longe

Monster Longe is a personal trainer in San Diego. He has been lifting weights for +25 years and training clients in the gym and online for about half of that time. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys long walks and leaving buildings crushed and entire city blocks decimated in his wake.